19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
5:48 a.m.
At 02:57 PM 4/19/2006 +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
Sure, it's possible that some people with extremely complicated distutils scripts may find they need to update them.
...if and *only* if they want setuptools' features, or their users do. Sorry to seize on this point out of context, Anthony. I just want to prevent anybody from seizing on this as an objection on "backward compatibility" grounds. Nobody will be forced to use setuptools in 2.5, any more than anyone will be forced to use ctypes or elementtree or sqlite.